BOOKS by Flavio Cammarano
"Holy Cards and History of a Parisian Publisher.
Maison Bouasse-Lebel"
by Flavio Cammarano e Aldo Florian
Book • 1053 color pictures • 344 pages
8.3 x 11.7 inches - cm. 21 x 29,7 (A4 sheets)
Weight: 3.3 pounds (1,5 kilograms)
Print Run Limited
With the Italian book is included a free pamphlet with the full English translation of the text.
Printed in December, 2009 the book contains:
Historical notes on the holy cards in France from 1550 to 1900, with numerous iconographic examples;
The history of the Bouasse-Lebel publishing house reconstructed with careful research of historical archives and primary sources;
The presentation of the thematic series and the numbered series;
10 charts with exact dating of the main series produced, very useful for collectors and vendors.
This publication, unique of its kind, is dedicated to the history of the French publisher Bouasse-Lebel and contains 1053 holy cards, of which 938 were published by the historic publishing house between 1845 and 1965.
From the xylographies of Rue Montorgueil to the engravings of Rue Saint-Jacques, from “Romantic” style to that “Sulpician”, from Saint Napoleon to the last Pope-King, this book promises also to uncover the secret of the Maison Basset and the unscrupulous strategies of the publishing house Bouasse Jeune.
This book, relating the charming paper lace holy cards of the past to the tangled and complicated events of a publishing dynasty (death sentences and suicides separations and trials, family pacts and testaments), reconstructs the history of one of the most important imagery publishers of Saint-Sulpice.
The information, dates and the collection of images contained in the text are the fruits of years of research and they attempt to give answers to the following questions: How did this publishing house get started? How many types of holy cards exist? In which years have they been produced? But above all: Who were the Bouasse-Lebel?
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